INTRODUCTION
One of the most interesting reads is a book from a 19th century University scholar named James Ralston Skinner (1830-1893) called Key to the Hebrew‑Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures (1875). Few names were as authoritative as Skinner and Movers. Skinner’s ideas became part of the intellectual background of late nineteenth-century Occultism. In his work, his thesis is that the Bible, especially Genesis, is a numerical‑geometric cryptogram rather than a narrative. There exists a canon of proportion or universal system of measures reflected in certain ancient sacred texts, mathematics in the architecture of temples and measures expressed in numbers, geometry, and metrology, e.g., the British inch, ancient cubit, pyramid dimensions, Temple of Solomon, from which these derive. This system of geometry is theology, and the Hebrew Bible’s “god‑names” and biblical phrases are in-fact compressed numerical formulae. The Hebrew Bible, ancient Egyptian metrology and Jewish mysticism preserve a single esoteric engineering system. The stories disguise the measures.
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